TABLE OF CONTENTS
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DECLARATION... i
PREFACE ... ii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... iv
ABSTRACT ... vi
TABLE OF CONTENTS ... vii
LIST OF TABLES ... xi
CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Reading and Purposes of Reading ... 9
2.2 Models of Reading ... 11
2.3 Reading Strategies Used by Good Readers ... 13
2.4 Cognitive Reading Strategies ... 19
2.4.1 Resourcing ... 22
2.5 Previous Studies in Reading Strategies... 29
2.5.2 Ghonsooly&Eghtesadee (2006) ... 33
2.5.3 Hamdan, et al (2010) ... 35
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1 Research Design ... 37
3.2 Restatement of Research Problems ... 37
3.3 Participants ... 38
3.4 Instruments ... 39
3.5 Method of Data Collection and Analysis ... 39
3.5.1 Questionnaire ... 39
3.5.2 Thinking-Aloud Protocols (TAPs) ... 41
CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS 4.1 Cognitive Reading Strategies Frequently Used by the Students ... 44
4.1.1 Data from Questionnaire ... 45
4.1.2 Data from Thinking-Aloud Protocols (TAPs) ... 52
in Reading Comprehension Test Successfully ... 54
4.2.1 Cognitive Reading Strategies Used to Identify the
Topic and the Main Idea of the Passage ... 56
4.2.2 Cognitive Reading Strategies Used to Guess the
Meaning of the Unknown Words ... 58
4.2.3 Cognitive Reading Strategies Used to Answer
Questions Dealing With Reading Comprehension... 60
4.2.4 Cognitive Reading Strategies Used to Understand
What Implies in the Text or Infer from the Text .... 61
4.2.5 Cognitive Reading Strategies Used to Predict
the Preceding Paragraph ... 63
4.2.6 Cognitive Reading Strategies Used to Identify the
Tone of the Passage ... 63
4.2.7 Cognitive Reading Strategies Used to Analyze
CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1 Conclusions ... 66
5.2 Recommendations ... 68
BIBLIOGRAPHY ... 71
APPENDIX 1Questionnaire ... 80
APPENDIX 2 Result of TAPs ... 82
APPENDIX 3 Reading Comprehension Test ... 258
